Keep a towel handy. When they jump for your throat, catch them with the towel. But it isn’t the claws you need to worry about - when they really go after you, they use the fangs.
I think last year that was a guy who called 911 because his cat trapped him and his wife or daughter in the bedroom.
Hard to imagine having to call 911 for a cat.
A few punches won’t stop a pit bull but I would imagine it would damage a cat.
Not that my little buddy would ever attack me :)
“But it isn’t the claws you need to worry about - when they really go after you, they use the fangs.”
Several of my cat’s teeth have been extracted, including her fangs (her needle-point claws work just fine). Still, I feign pain when she bits...wouldn’t want to damage her psyche.